FLSR life rocks!

Apparently I have become rather bad a posting every week.  Maybe that is good, since there is less long windedness for everyone else to listen to   Regardless, two weeks has gone by super quickly.  It seems like everyday is as long as can be, but the weeks as a whole take forever to be over.  It is strange.

 

We had a bonfire for FHE, and that as a lot of fun.  I love the smell of campfire.  Smores are always fun as well.  It was also fun because I got to hang out more with the French house, something that doesn’t happen too often.  They are a really cool set of girls, and so it is fun to get to know them better.

Tuesday was the start of our weekly ultimate Frisbee games.  It is a lot of fun to get a bunch of people together and just enjoy the exercise.  The teams are generally pretty even match, though there are a couple players who truly stand out.

On Friday I had a really fun date with one of the girls from my ward.  We went up to the park above the state mental hospital.  Up there we roasted shish kabobs and played croquet.  My date actually one with some very masterful club work.  It was pretty awesome.

After that we played some Frisbee golf.  We did end up going to two different parks so that we could play some more, but it was still a lot of fun.  LauraLee is actually pretty good at getting the Frisbee in the basket.

After that I came home and joined the French house who was having a dance party.  It was a lot of fun to get up and move.  It was a silly Wii game, but it was still a lot of fun.  We danced forever, and then when the last people were leaving we left and started having a conversation on dating.

The dating conversation lasted about an hour and a half.  What came out of it was that everyone should be less couched in what they do, and that secretly none of us thought that the other side would.  So dating as normal in Provo

Saturday was another really great day.  I had another date with another girl in the ward.  This time we went and had a picnic lunch.  We followed that up with a game of Frisbee golf, followed by some Nertz.  It was a lot of fun.

After the date I went off to the stake activity.  It was also a lot of fun, we played volleyball, ultimate Frisbee, ate catered JDogs, and watched comedy sports.  Yeah, it rocked as much as it sounds

After that event I got a text from Naomi that night, and so I spent the night with her hearing about her adventures with Bruno Mars.  I feel really lucky to have friends as wonderful as Naomi.

 

So as you can all see a week ago was pretty busy.  Luckily it was pretty busy just having fun.  The Lord has really blessed me by allowing me to be in such an awesome ward with such wonderful people this summer.

 

Well last Sunday was also really busy.  I got set apart as the Elder’s Quorum president.  Lets hope I just don’t manage to burn down the church   I did have to wait till this Sunday to get my councilors called, but luckily there wasn’t much to do that first week.

That Sunday night after ward prayer we played Nertz, and it was a fun time.  I think I won every round but one.  For me that is incredibly successful, so I felt just wonderful.  It is so wonderful to be able to spend time like this with other people.

On Monday we had another wonderful FHE.  We went to the Bishop’s house, and there roasted hot dogs, marshmallows, and swam in his pool.  Did I not mention that I have an awesome ward

A had a couple little adventures Tuesday-Thursday.  The one that was the most fun was going to the creamery with a bunch of people in the FLSR to celebrate the end of finals.  We had a fun time together, and even played translation telephone as well.  It is like the standard telephone game, except that at each person the language changes as well.

Friday continued the fun.  We invited everyone over to watch “The Next Three Days”.  There were not that many people that were able to come, but luckily we were able to get a bunch of the new people this term.  And let me tell you, the new people in our ward are pretty awesome.  I am really excited to get to know them more.

I found out one the girls, Rebecca, had never watched “Stardust”, so we decided the next day that we would watch it.  So on Saturday we got people together and watched the movie.  Everybody really loved it.  After that we just all talked for a while, and it is so great knowing these people.

 

So yea, a pretty busy but awesome week.  One more thing, Sean has decided to start teaching me Russian, so maybe in a few weeks I will be able to say some broken Russian phrases!  Oh how I love the FLSR.

I hope that you are all also rocking it wherever you are.  Thanks for reading my blog you all, I hope you like it.

A couple fun weeks

So, once again it seems that I have skipped a week of writing in my blog.  It just seems that there is always so much to do, that I don’t ever get around to finishing the blog.

 

On Sunday, as in two weeks ago Sunday, I got to give a lesson in Elder’s Quorum.  It was about proper Sunday observance.  I was really happy to be able to give this lesson.  I feel that as I have done better to properly observe the Sabbath day, my life has been greatly blessed.  I know that when we sacrifice for the Lord on this day, he gives us back much more in return.

The first real party item of the week was Thursday.  At my lab we decided to have a curry day to celebrate the progress we have been making on our project, and also that one of the Master’s students did their defense that day.  We did a curry potluck where everyone brought a different type of curry, and we stuffed ourselves on it.  I myself made a Thai coconut curry that turned out well, even if it was as strongly flavored as I would have liked.

Out professor also brought in his week and supplies for root bear floats.  So as you might imagine we got absolutely zero work done that day.  But it was so much fun just to relax and spend the day playing games and eating curry with everyone.

That night we also had a fun complex activity.  It was an open mic night.  It was really cool to see how talented a bunch of people in the FLSR where.  I even got up and performed some stuff, even though I had just barely begun to learn the guitar.  Crazy, huh.  Oh well, someday I will be able to perform something a little harder then “Puff the Magic Dragon”, and that will be a good day :)

Saturday was also another good day.  In the morning I went out with one of my old friends to the canyon.  There we walked around and had a picnic.  It was a lot of fun to catch up with her, and see how life was going for her.

In the afternoon on Saturday Sean and I got some people together to play volleyball.  It was actually pretty hard to get the requisite number of people since quite a few people were actually out of town.  Eventually we did get together 9 of us, and we had a fun little while playing volleyball.  We kept playing until it start to rain a little, and then we headed home.

 

My second week was also just as fun.  Last Sunday we had dinner at the Bishop’s house.  It was a lot of fun to go with several members of the ward over there for dinner.  It was a lot of fun to get to know those people better and just have a great time.

After that I had Brittany and Angela’s birthday parties.  They are growing up so fast!  I know I am not that much older than them, but I still remember them so clearly from when they were just little girls.  It is crazy to see them both all so grown up now.  It was also great just to be able to spend some time with my family.

Lastly on Sunday we had pie at the Spanish house.  They had made some extra apple pies, and they invited us over to eat.  I must admit, every time I am in the Spanish house I do feel a little bad that I have let my Spanish comprehension slip so much.  I really should do something to get it back… yea, that will probably never happen though…

 

On Monday the ward came over to my apartment to watch Inception.  I must say I really do have a cool ward, and I just love doing things with them.  Inception was really fun since we had it on Blue-ray and 5.1 surround sound.  It is also just great movie.

On Wednesday I had a really fun date.  We went to an acoustic guitar concert,  The bands that played were really good.  I would sure love to be that good someday.  It was just fun to be outside in the beautiful weather, enjoying good music with good company.  After the show was over we went and played a little Bocce ball.  We then came back to the FLSR.  All in a all a really good night.

Thursday saw some drama with the language coordinator of my house.  I won’t go into details, but suffice it to say it made the first part of my day pretty terrible.  At least the end was better as I had another date for Thursday night (different girl.)  We went to Rock Canyon park.  First we played Bocce ball, and got killed by the other couple that was with us.  After that we played some Croquet.  It was a lot of fun.  My date, Leah, was really good at Croquet.  She got through all of the hoops super quickly.  one of the sweetest shots was when as the stringer she took out Sean’s ball from about 10-15 feet away.  It was just an epic shot.  After that it was all I could to dodge her attempts to take me out.  Luckily I did make it to the end, and then we tried to kill each other off for the rest of the game.  Eventually she missed my ball by all of an inch, and I was able to hit her ball from that distance to end the game.

After Croquet we came back to the FLSR and went to the ice cream social that was happening for complex mingle.  There we both competed, along with Allyson from the French house, in an ice cream eating contest.  We all had a bowl of ice cream and we had to eat it with our hands behind our backs.  It was a lot of fun, and ice cream certainly got over all of our faces.  It was such a wonderful night, which is what I needed after such a terrible morning :)

 

On Friday I went up to the cabin.  I had invited several of my friends, but in the end only Ashley and Leah from the French house were able to come.  The ride up was a lot of fun as there was good conversation and good music.  Once we got up there we decided to make some German chocolate cake.  While we were waiting for it to back we watch a couple really funny divine comedy music video spoofs.  After that we played some Apples to Apples.  Overall it was just a really fun night.

 

On Saturday we made an amazing breakfast of eggs, pancakes, French toast, bacon, sausage, and orange juice.  It was just delightful.  Then the people that came up with me, as well as Ryan and Sarah and one other boy, went out for a hike.  It was a lot of fun.  Everywhere was flooded because of all the snow and rain we have been getting this year.  At one point I just had to take off my shoes and socks and walk through a new river that had formed to get where we then wanted to go.

Everything was so beautiful on the hike.  The creations of our Lord are truly magnificent, and I am grateful that I can enjoy them.  During the hike we even got to have a snowball fight that was a lot of fun, even though I did cut my leg on the snow since it had frozen ice shards in it.

After that we played Upwards for a while, and then made ourselves some Spaghetti for lunch.  Actually, for lunch, the girls did most of the work, and for that reason it probably turned out so good :)  After that we all headed home.

And yet that wasn’t the end of my Saturday.  No this was mega-Saturday!  After I got back there was the ward opening social.  It is kind of weird that we are having it now, even though in two weeks about half of the ward is leaving, but that is just how life is.

While there we started a game of ultimate Frisbee.  It was so much fun.  At fist I was playing just like normal, but then I decided to get crazy and start running down every Frisbee, even if I wasn’t sure I could catch it.  I had some sweet misses, and some even sweeter catches.  My favorite was when I had to run, jump, and then slide to grab the Frisbee, catching it with only one centimeter between it and the group.  It was pretty crazy.  That did cause a bunch of grass to go into my ear and hurt a lot, but it was worth it for that catch =p

And then to end the day I went to Orem to spend some time with family, and also to watch the season finale of The Mentalist.  It certainly did not disappoint.  I just love how everything has wrapped up.  I can’t wait to see what they plan to do next season!

 

So that is what I have been up to these last two weeks.  I assume my friends have been having as much fun.  They seem to all be doing little mini adventures before they come home from China in the next couple of weeks.  I have missed reading their blogs, but I am sure I will get to read plenty of updates soon enough (hint, hint.)